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🎁 The free guide — 🇲🇾 Kuala Lumpur, out now

A complete guide. On the house.

Here’s the thing about a guide you can’t open: you have no idea whether it’s any good. Screenshots don’t help. “38 pages!” doesn’t help. Trust us doesn’t help.

So we’re not going to ask you to trust us. Our entire Kuala Lumpur guide is free — all 38 pages of it, the same file our paying readers download, with nothing removed, nothing watermarked and nothing locked. Read it. Use it on a real trip. Then decide whether the other 48 are for you.

🎁 Get your free Kuala Lumpur guide → €0. No card, nothing to pay, no catch.

✦It costs nothing and nothing is owed. All we ask is an honest review on the download page once you’ve used it — good or bad, one sentence is plenty.

Not a sampleThe complete 38-page magazine — cover, contents, every city section, back cover. We didn’t make a “lite” version. There isn’t one.
Every link live244 clickable links, 115 of them Google Maps pins: every venue, real hostel pages, official airport operators. Tap and go.
Real 2026 pricesResearched this year, in euros, with honest ranges instead of made-up single numbers.
No stringsNo card, no trial, no “free with subscription”, no ads and nothing to cancel. Tap the button, read the guide.

What’s actually inside

Every Sama·Sama guide is built the same way — around how people really travel, not how brochures are organised. Here’s the shape of your free Kuala Lumpur guide:

  • What a day costsThree honest budgets — shoestring, comfy, flash — built from real transit fares, real dorm beds, real plates of food.
  • Where to stay, and whyEvery neighbourhood with a clear “best for”, so you don’t book the wrong side of town and spend the week in taxis.
  • Eating, from street to specialStreet food, mid-range and blow-out dinners, each with prices and a live map link.
  • Getting in and getting aroundAirport options with the official operator’s own page, plus how to actually buy a ticket once you’re there.
  • Stays we’d book ourselvesHotels, apartments and three hand-checked hostels — real property pages, not a search box.
  • Things to do — with kids and withoutTwo separate lists, because those are two very different holidays.
  • Markets, day trips & a Top 10The greatest-hits page for when you’ve only got two days and want to get it right.
  • Scams, seasons & small printWhat locals wish you knew, when to come, and the little stuff that quietly ruins trips.

How it works

Tap the buttonIt costs €0 — no account, no password, no card, nothing to pay. Our shop just asks for an email address so it can send you the file.
Read it or save itOpens in your browser. Save the page, or print it to A4 PDF and it looks exactly like the paid ones — which also come with a phone edition.
Use it on a real tripEvery price checked, every link tested. Tap a venue and Google Maps opens where you’re standing.
You decideLove it? The other 48 are waiting. Don’t? Keep it anyway, with our compliments.
✦The only thing we ask

Tell us the truth about it.

That’s the whole price. Take the guide, use it in Kuala Lumpur — and then say what you honestly thought, somewhere we can read it.

We’re independent. No publisher, no sponsors, no paid placements, no ad budget. So a few honest words from someone who actually walked those streets with this thing in their pocket are worth more to us than anything we could ever buy — and they’re what puts the next guide into a stranger’s hands.

One sentence is plenty. There’s no right answer and nothing is owed — the guide is yours to keep either way, forever.

You’ll find the review box waiting on your download page, right where the guide is. It takes a minute.

Thank you, sincerely. For something this small it matters more than you’d think.

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